Chat Client Discussion

Sharkord

I just came across this in a YouTube comment and I found it so interesting that I wanted to share it here.

It's a self-hostable Discord alternative almost similar to Matrix (obviously without federation). It has voice chat, screen sharing and some other basic functions of Discord except a "fancy" profile customization.

The server is just a simple and lightweight binary (also available on Docker) which after launching, it starts a web client at port 4991 (yeah, it doesn't have a native client yet you can only use it from your browser). You can configure it later by creating or editing config.ini file under the ~/.config/sharkorddirectory and following this guide (things like server description, logo, storage and signups can be changed inside the web client after using the owner token the server generates for you).

There's also a public official demo here if you want to test it without running a server.

• Sharkord - Open Source Self-Hosted Chat Platform sharkord.com
• GitHub GitHub - Sharkord/sharkord: Lightweight, self-hosted, open-source chat server with voice, video, text, and screen sharing. Built for small groups who want privacy, simplicity, and full contr... Lightweight, self-hosted, open-source chat server with voice, video, text, and screen sharing. Built for small groups who want privacy, simplicity, and full control over their data. - Sharkord/shar... github.com

This one looks pretty promising, I signed up for the demo and had a look at it a little bit. I don't have a VPS to try and deploy my own instance but maybe one day when I do get a VPS again I'll test this out further, thanks for sharing it with us!